- New Chairperson of National Green Tribunal July 2018 - Adarsh Kumar Goel

- The head of the Committee created to draft new education Policy - K Kasturirangan

- New Chief Justice of the Hyderabad High Court for the states of Telangana and Andhra Pradesh - Justice Thottathil Bhaskaran Nair Radhakrishnan

- J N Sadhu, the Veteran journalist has passed away. He was associated with newspaper - The Indian Express

Sports

- The Indian Men T-20 vice-captain of Cricket team - Rohit Sharma

General Knowledge

- Elections to one-third of the seats of the upper house of the Parliament, the Rajya Sabha, are conducted every - Two years.

- First time NOTA was introduced in five state elections in - November 2013

- The minimum age for becoming a candidate for Lok Sabha or Assembly election – 25 Years

- The maximum number of members of Rajya Sabha – 250

- The present strength of Rajya Sabha – 245

- Rajya Sabha is a Permanent House and is not subject to dissolution as per - Article 83 (1)

Economy

- Prevention of Money Laundering Act, 2002 enacted in – January 2003

- Financial Intelligence Unit – India (FIU-IND) was set by the Government of India on- 18 November 2004

- The current account deficit is a measurement of a country’s trade where the value of the goods and services it imports exceeds the value of the goods and services it exports – Current Account Deficit

- A trade deficit is an economic measure of international trade in which a country's imports exceeds its exports - Trade Deficit

- A deficit is the opposite of a surplus. It is the amount by which a resource falls short of a mark – Deficit